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1 What I'd Like to Tape to Mark's Forehead by Lisa Mikitarian
2 Redemption by Rachel Phelps
3 Fairy Tale Clothing by Benjamin Graber
4 The Chimes of Time by Margaret Kearley
5 Gather You The Rosebuds by Loren Thomas
6 Raw Skin by Debbie Roome
7 God's Plans by Michael Throne
8 Shift Change by Lynda Schultz
9 Bird Watching in Shifts by Anita Vander Elst
10 My Day of all Days by Vincent Lyons
11 The Force by William Price
12 Easy In, Forget Getting Out by Nancy Bucca
13 Collision Course Day by Steve Fitschen
14 A Whisper in Gilead Virgil by Youngblood
15 The Power of One Day by Carol Sprock
16 Stop and Smell the Café au Lait by Glynis Becker
17 Love at First Sight by Lollie Hofer
18 The Perfect Day by Juliana Gonzalez
19 Her Dawn's Early Light by Linda Germain
20 One Day by Karen Pourbabaee
21 The Road to Hell by Ambrose W
22 Who Will Go to Them? By Diana Kay
23 It's Only 24 Hours by Shann Hall-LochmannVanBennekom
24 The Journal Entries of Layne Kimberly by Amanda Brogan
25 Do You Suppose by Cherry Bieber
26 Silent Punishment by Sara Harricharan
27 The Great Healer! By Danielle King
28 I Do by Jody Day
29 A Date with Destiny by Noel Mitaxa
30 Prison by Cay Drew

1 The Perfect Day by Juliana Gonzalez
2 Prison by Cay Drew
3 24 on Omaha Beach by Perry F. Louden, Jr.
4 Tick - Tick - Tick by Anna Moody
5 The Truth about Cows and Moons by Lisa Fowler
6 Joy Comes in the Morning by Shanta Richard
7 Even You by Dee Washington
8 Operation 24 by Chris Benjamin
9 What a Difference a Day Makes by Pat Schwieder
10 Morning by LeRoy Dean
11 Those Eyes… by Jeff Lambert
12 The Arm of God by April Smith
13 He Listens. He Answers by Tiara Huffman
14 Soup for the Soul by Sandra Hoolihan
15 See. Don't Look by Candace Moles

1 The Road to Hell by Ambrose W
2 Who Will Go to Them? By Diana Kay
3 Miracle of Taipei 101 by Brenda Rice
4 A Daring Rescue by Christine Long
5 What if We Had Twenty-Four Hours to Live? By Cindy Tuttle
6 Turn Back Time? By Joni LeRette-Flores
7 Every Minute Matters by Sandra Bivens Smith
8 The Gift that Keeps on Giving by Kathy Stevens
9 A Verse a Day Keeps the Devil Away by Fern Brown
10 The Gift (i) by Leola Ogle

1 Easy In, Forget Getting Out by Nancy Bucca
2 A Whisper in Gilead by Virgil Youngblood
3 The Power of One Day by Carol Sprock
4 Stop and Smell the Café au Lait by Glynis Becker
5 Love at First Sight by Lollie Hofer
6 One Day by Karen Pourbabaee
7 It's Only 24 Hours by Shann Hall-LochmannVanBennekom
8 The Journal Entries of Layne Kimberly by Amanda Brogan
9 Do You Suppose by Cherry Bieber
10 Silent Punishment by Sara Harricharan
11 The Great Healer! By Danielle King
12 I Do by Jody Day
13 A Date with Destiny by Noel Mitaxa
14 Time with the Healer by Joy Bach
15 Personal Malpractice by Tracy Nunes

1 What I'd Like to Tape to Mark's Forehead by Lisa Mikitarian
2 Redemption by Rachel Phelps
3 Fairy Tale Clothing by Benjamin Graber
4 The Chimes of Time by Margaret Kearley
5 Gather You The Rosebuds by Loren Thomas
6 Raw Skin by Debbie Roome
7 God's Plans by Michael Throne
8 Shift Change by Lynda Schultz
9 Bird Watching in Shifts by Anita Vander Elst
10 My Day of all Days by Vincent Lyons
11 The Force by William Price
12 Collision Course Day by Steve Fitschen
13 Her Dawn's Early Light by Linda Germain
14 Day by Day by Allison Egley
15 Last Time by Thomas Kappel

Congratulations again everyone. I guess I was only a little rusty. Thanks for letting me play this week. Now back to my studies. I don't think I ever finished 11th before. It was either top ten or bottom forty; boom or bust. God bless and keep being a blessing with your writing.

OldManRivers wrote:I have observed a pattern ... my entries I most like, seldom score and the entries I consider weak, score. Is there some weird psychological thing going on with me?

No that seems the way it is, but I have found the stories I most like, I'm the closest to, and it's hard to be objective to something we are close to. Trust me, some of my best writing, in my mind, were the furthest away from an EC, but closest to my heart.

BreathFreshAir wrote:So, does that mean you should all submit entries you hate from now on?

(Seriously, just kidding.)

Love, Deb

Just to take up some more space, back in the day when I spent a week on a story, I actually hated it by the time I reworked it a hundred times; they most often placed. The ones I really liked, I didn't want to mess with. So I guess, just kidding seriously, if I don't hate my entry, I haven't worked it enough. As it turnd out, I should have hated this last entry a little more. I must be getting soft:)

I understand where both William and Jim are coming from. I guess I've regretted some of my stories rather than hated them. I do feel at times I had abandoned them before they were fully developed and the regret comes in because I didn't spend the time in the struggle to make it better.

I think some stories touch us at a very personal level; and if it doesn't happen to place, I don't think it necessarily speaks to the talent of the writer. They were simply at a place where some weren't - but then some were as well. I'm grateful for both those writers and readers.

Loren

"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything." From "As You Like It." Wm. Shakespeare.